Beyond the Dashboard: Where AI Helps Enterprise Supply Chains – and Where It Doesn’t

Stay in the loop with Supply Chain Now! We’ve got all the latest episodes, interviews, conversations, and livestreams from this week right here. On Monday, we released 2 new episodes! On Supply Chain Now, hosts Scott Luton and Ben Harris welcomed two bold and innovative CEOs to the podcast: Cloe Guidry-Reed with Hire Ground and Pierre Laguerre with Fleeting. On This Week in Business History, guest host Kelly Barner remembers key innovations, inventions, and firsts that took place between April 12th and the 16th, including Metallica’s legal stand against Napster, the relative advantages and costs of the Pony Express and postage stamps, and two ‘Titanic’ operations – the RMS Titanic and McDonald’s Inc. On Tuesday, we released 2 new episodes. On this episode of Logistics with Purpose, powered in partnership with Vector Global Logistics, our hosts Scott Luton, Enrique Alvarez, and Kevin Brown sat down with Good360 CEO Matt Connelly to learn more about delivering goods – and good – in the era of disruption, globalization, and digitization. On TECHquila Sunrise, host Greg White sat down with Peter Stangeland, Chief Commercial Officer of DB Schenker, to talk about the exciting progress his teams have made in clearing the path to…

Special Guest Blog Post written by Chris Cunnane with InterSystems   Sustainability has become a boardroom priority. Organizations across industries have established ambitious environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, committed to reducing emissions, and increased investments in sustainability initiatives. Yet many still struggle to translate those commitments into tangible operational outcomes. The challenge is rarely a lack of intent. Instead, it is a lack of actionable, real-time decision-making. This is where decision intelligence comes in. Decision intelligence combines data, analytics, AI, and human expertise to improve how organizations make operational decisions. Rather than simply generating insights, it helps businesses turn those insights into actions that deliver measurable results. As sustainability increasingly depends on thousands of daily decisions across sourcing, transportation, inventory, manufacturing, and fulfillment, the ability to make better decisions at scale becomes a significant competitive advantage. The Sustainability Gap Many organizations have sustainability strategies, but execution remains difficult. According to an InterSystems survey of 450 supply chain professionals, one of the greatest barriers to ESG progress is a lack of real-time supply chain visibility. Another major challenge is inconsistent reporting from suppliers and trading partners. Without timely, trusted data, organizations often rely on historical information that may no longer…